This is the timeline for your Writing for New Media Class. Think of it as your table of contents, or your navigation page for the rest of the term, where all your lessons, lectures, requirements, and schedules will be posted. As soon as something new is up, it becomes a clickable link to its own page. This of course will grow as we adjust this throughout the term given needs and demands. The syllabus and all pertinent documents and readings are up on the class google drive.
I. Introduction to New Media Writing
READ: The Children’s Story by James Clavell. (PDF also available here.)
LISTEN: Podcast on The Children’s Story by James Clavell
DISCUSSION: Synchronous Session 1 – September 15 2020.
Online Discussion 1: On “The Children’s Story.”
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WATCH: Critical Thinking Towards Thoughtful Writing.
Critical Creativity: Reading and writing on aspects of the self.
III.
WATCH: Thinking in Terms of Text And Image
WRITING EXERCISE: Build a mood board for a personal site on a specific aspect of the self.
A. Write the About Page
Writing Sample — About Page Text
B. Caption a Photograph
Writing Sample — Photo Plus Caption.
WATCH — Walk-Through: Text and Image Exercises.
Writing Sample — Text Plus Image.
C. Write a Feature on an Issue or Advocacy
READ — Social Class readings.
LISTEN — Social class and inequality podcast.
LISTEN — Beyond resilience, writing in solidarity.
Supplement 1 — Finding Focus (Graphic).
Supplement 2 — The Essay (Video).
Writing Sample — Taliptip Test.
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AVP Scriptwriting.
REVISED WORKSHEET (AV Concept).
Introduction to AVP Scriptwriting.
Lecture Video 1: From worksheet to script.
GDrive for script samples, handout of terms, and worksheet.
VII.
Screenwriting (Writing the Screenplay).
REVISED WORKSHEET (Screenwriting).
Telling Stories: From AV Scriptwriting to Screenwriting.
Screenwriting Video 1: Beginning Your Story.
Screenwriting Video 2: Building Your Story.
Screenwriting Video 3: Writing Your Story.
